You can't make this shit up. http://deceiver.com/2010/08/13/union-member-fired-for-attempting-to-unionize/
Thanks to my worthless Union, I have been receiving 60% of my paycheck weekly since April. Also, I got my hospital bill in late-August. My 4 surgeries combined and the 28 days I spent in the hospital would have cost me $218,000, I ended up getting the bill and it came to a whopping total of $120 bucks out of pocket. Also, getting the exact same job back when I go back Dec. 1st. Not to mention with my co-pay for all the medication that I have needed is costing me $10 and it has covered every medication that my Doc has prescribed. It sure sucks having great health care due to my horrible union. The only people who hates Unions are those who don't belong to a Union.
What do you do? What do you hate about it? Sure, there's a few lazy asses, but the positives far outweigh the negatives.
I've belonged to two unions. Both were terrible. That said, I did try to unionize claims adjusters once about 6 years ago, but too many people thought the insurance companies would fire them. As for this guy who got fired, I think it pretty much shows the real thinking of those at the top of unions. It's all about their bling first and workers second.
I like to get things done and take pride in my profession. Like any profession, people let a couple bad apples ruin the whole bunch. I take it you've never worked a Union job?
The unions made America the greatest producer in the world. It was taken for granted we made the best shit anywhere. After Reagan de-nuded most of them, well, you can see we're no longer much of anything special. Want to fix the economy? Bring back the unions in full force.
Good example to demonstrate my POV. Detroit is dying because nobody is buying cars. Nobody is buying cars because they're working for peanuts, have had their bennies axed or reduced, taken pay cuts, and their healthcare costs doubled over the last 3 years. If they had a union they'd have better pay, which would allow them to buy a new car and Detroit would be rockin' again. The "economy" is really just all the workers. Without workers, there would be no economy. Healthy, happy, comfortable workers = Healthy, happy, comfortable economy. The opposite is also true.
Unions saved this country from communism in the first part of the 20th century. We can thank unions for the 40 hour work week, paid vacation and safe work places. However, like the buggy whip, they've outlived their usefulness. The government has taken the place of unions by ensuring that workers have rights. And public unions are especially harmful and should be outlawed. Public unions and the politicians who owe them their seats work together to rob taxpayers. Non-union worker manage to earn decent salaries, get good benefits and health care without having to pay unions a large portion of their wages. In contrast, blue collar union jobs have been decimated by employers moving their jobs to Right To Work states or abroad. Their greed killed the steel, textile and auto industries in this country and unions have no one to blame but themselves.
Yes, I have. It was an absolute joke trying to get real work done. It was great if I wanted to take mandated breaks, get an extra 10 minutes paid lunch for a total of 40 whopping minutes, get to clock in and out, etc, etc.
So you are in favor of having the government ensure workplace rights? I agree, if the government is a strong enough regulator, the need for unions is greatly diminished. But I thought you'd be against that. It's been many a year since I was a Teamster, but I don't remember the union taking anything approaching a large portion of my wages. Google says Teamster dues are currently 2.5 hours of wage per month. That's about 1.5%. Doesn't seem excessive, if the union is doing a good job of negotiating wages/benefits/etc. I'm quite sure that when I was a Teamster, I made more than 1.5% more in wages because I had someone negotiating my contract for me. Well, they could also blame the company management which signed off on overly generous deals. It does take two to tango. They could also blame the financial industry which rewarded companies for moving jobs away. And they could blame the transportation and telecommunications industries for the advances that made it feasible to move those jobs overseas. Or maybe they could be glad they got their piece of the pie before the jobs were inevitably shipped out anyway. barfo
